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Horizontal Edge detection using Canny

Started by Arijit Biswas October 14, 2009
Hi all:

I want to use the Canny edge detector for detecting horizontal edges/lines only.
Is it possible to do that?
Which are the most important tuning parameters to make it work best for this purpose?
I want it to work consistently well for all the images.

My questions may sound too easy, but I'm an audio/speech processing guy :-)

Best Regards,
~Arijit
AFAIK, Canny processes all-directional gradients. To catch the horz edges
you'd need to modify it to take into consideration only Y-direction gradients.

Rgds,
Andrew

> Horizontal Edge detection using Canny
> Posted by: "Arijit Biswas" arijit17@... arijit17
> Date: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:35 am ((PDT))
>
> Hi all:
>
> I want to use the Canny edge detector for detecting horizontal edges/lines only.
> Is it possible to do that?
> Which are the most important tuning parameters to make it work best for this purpose?
> I want it to work consistently well for all the images.
>
> My questions may sound too easy, but I'm an audio/speech processing guy :-)
>
> Best Regards,
> ~Arijit
>